Seriously, putt a little thought into what is actually required to read data off of a hard drive that has been Properly overwritten. The parent's link makes the point that not only would the new random data obscure the deleted files, but the files written previously would do the same. If you're going to infer previous drive contents based on slight shifts in the magnetics of the drive, you have to realize that every use of the drive in the past has created the same shifts. Obviously there are areas that are more used than others but I would be perfectly happy with one complete overwrite of a drive that I'd been using for a few years previously.
Think of it this way: You can certainly track someone across a beach that few people have walked across, but if you expect that you can track me across Venice Beach a week after I go for a swim, you're nuts.
Yes, suddenly as soon as you buy one of these things you have your life programmed out for you and you join the line of unthinking slaves that powers the Machine.
Or wait. Maybe, just maybe, it's a weird little invention that people can choose or not choose to use. I'm pretty sure the early models won't come with an alcohol vortex that annihilates all other spirits within a stumbling radius of it (grab a beer from the fridge if you want to keep going).
I'm pretty sure your liberty is safe from this little machine.
Above deal on handmade jewelry. Note:
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Hand Made.
I'll custom make the chain if you want to add baubles or need it longer, etc. If you have a special metal preference (titanium, gold, etc) I can get you those quotes as well.
Time to shipping is about 2 weeks at present, unless the specific item you want is in stock.
I'm always open to email about suggestions for the site as well.
You completely ignored the fact that he stated what should be obvious: ThinkGeek, etc doesn't drive the item to your house. They ship via USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc. Some of them offer Saturday delivery, but I'm sure you will pipe up how that costs way more and you should be special or different from everyone else who receives anything via post.
This rebuttal was just garbage. You're saying it takes too long to check out the specs of an item online. And obviously every salesman in brics and mortar stores a) knows what they're talking about and b) won't lie to you. Here's a hint: the first time you go looking for product specs: remember where you got them. If it's a general purose review site you can go back next time for info on other items.
It gets better and better. You can't even remember where you bought it so you can't return it. Well, if you ever buy something online in the future I submit that you should either print or save the receipt page they give you to jog your memory in case this happens again or you need warranty work. Etc.
Actually, you're probably too helpless to shop online. Better to go let the nice salesman spend your money for you.
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There is currently a 10% off of everything sale at my website. I make and sell jewellery and other stuff (wallet chains, dice bags, footbags - things made of rings). I'm getting married on July 21, so it's a celebratory sale. Act now! Proceeds go to the honeymoon..
In any given group there is something of a maximum nuumber of people that are productively engaged in a project. If you exceed this number the productivity doesn't go up; indeed it will go down with further addition to the group.
You could draw this to a national or global scale saying that greater numbers of people being born isn't helping anymore and we're spending more resources on keeping things going that developing new things. Certainly the development of newer technology is still occurring, but the per capita measurement shows that more and more resources are going towards status quo.
The article makes him sound completely out of touch with operations. Someone handed him some shiny brochures and said "Hit the stand, Jack. Make it sound good.". Of course he's not supposed to say "Well, we're boned. We give up." but this guy may as well be on your dashboard, all grins and nods with nothin but a spring in his head.
"We cannot support open source"? Inflexability and weakness.
"We can support interoperability" We are being told we have to.
"I didn't know x" We're sorry.. we thought you ran things around here..
Funny thing is, the site in my sig is one of mine for the jewellery I make, but it's got banner ads in it and I just upped it from one at the bottom to one at bottom and one in the top right corner. Haha. At least they don't flash and squeal - I choose which banners I put in the rotation.
Completely inoffensive, they don't load a Java interpreter, flash/jiggle/move at all, etc other nasty things (I'm tired).
They should serve as an example of what web advertising should be like.
A number of these walltops, when connected..
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Equal a cluster.
And a slideshow.
Honestly, you could have whatever you wanted your cluster to be doing running in the backgrgound and have it once in a while change the image showing on the screen. Is it a web server or is it art?
Slashdot Mirror
You'll never see this anyhow. Why did you click?
Seriously, putt a little thought into what is actually required to read data off of a hard drive that has been Properly overwritten. The parent's link makes the point that not only would the new random data obscure the deleted files, but the files written previously would do the same. If you're going to infer previous drive contents based on slight shifts in the magnetics of the drive, you have to realize that every use of the drive in the past has created the same shifts. Obviously there are areas that are more used than others but I would be perfectly happy with one complete overwrite of a drive that I'd been using for a few years previously.
Think of it this way: You can certainly track someone across a beach that few people have walked across, but if you expect that you can track me across Venice Beach a week after I go for a swim, you're nuts.
Yes, suddenly as soon as you buy one of these things you have your life programmed out for you and you join the line of unthinking slaves that powers the Machine.
Or wait. Maybe, just maybe, it's a weird little invention that people can choose or not choose to use. I'm pretty sure the early models won't come with an alcohol vortex that annihilates all other spirits within a stumbling radius of it (grab a beer from the fridge if you want to keep going).
I'm pretty sure your liberty is safe from this little machine.
Hand Made.
I'll custom make the chain if you want to add baubles or need it longer, etc. If you have a special metal preference (titanium, gold, etc) I can get you those quotes as well.
Time to shipping is about 2 weeks at present, unless the specific item you want is in stock.
I'm always open to email about suggestions for the site as well.
You completely ignored the fact that he stated what should be obvious: ThinkGeek, etc doesn't drive the item to your house. They ship via USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc. Some of them offer Saturday delivery, but I'm sure you will pipe up how that costs way more and you should be special or different from everyone else who receives anything via post.
This rebuttal was just garbage. You're saying it takes too long to check out the specs of an item online. And obviously every salesman in brics and mortar stores a) knows what they're talking about and b) won't lie to you. Here's a hint: the first time you go looking for product specs: remember where you got them. If it's a general purose review site you can go back next time for info on other items.
It gets better and better. You can't even remember where you bought it so you can't return it. Well, if you ever buy something online in the future I submit that you should either print or save the receipt page they give you to jog your memory in case this happens again or you need warranty work. Etc.
Actually, you're probably too helpless to shop online. Better to go let the nice salesman spend your money for you.
There is currently a 10% off of everything sale at my website. I make and sell jewellery and other stuff (wallet chains, dice bags, footbags - things made of rings). I'm getting married on July 21, so it's a celebratory sale. Act now! Proceeds go to the honeymoon..
In any given group there is something of a maximum nuumber of people that are productively engaged in a project. If you exceed this number the productivity doesn't go up; indeed it will go down with further addition to the group.
You could draw this to a national or global scale saying that greater numbers of people being born isn't helping anymore and we're spending more resources on keeping things going that developing new things. Certainly the development of newer technology is still occurring, but the per capita measurement shows that more and more resources are going towards status quo.
The article makes him sound completely out of touch with operations. Someone handed him some shiny brochures and said "Hit the stand, Jack. Make it sound good.". Of course he's not supposed to say "Well, we're boned. We give up." but this guy may as well be on your dashboard, all grins and nods with nothin but a spring in his head.
"We cannot support open source"? Inflexability and weakness.
"We can support interoperability" We are being told we have to.
"I didn't know x" We're sorry.. we thought you ran things around here..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113749/
Not terribly informing, except for the first bit: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/22/112743/ 617
I snippet on costs involved, etc:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid /27514/story.htm
Sounds like a good alternative for now, given that you're using biodiesel or SVO.
Then where will all the good posts come from?
Flasher Drives Future Apple Laptops?
Odd advertising campaign.. seems related to the Browncoats story.
Boo!
Funny thing is, the site in my sig is one of mine for the jewellery I make, but it's got banner ads in it and I just upped it from one at the bottom to one at bottom and one in the top right corner. Haha. At least they don't flash and squeal - I choose which banners I put in the rotation.
Completely inoffensive, they don't load a Java interpreter, flash/jiggle/move at all, etc other nasty things (I'm tired). They should serve as an example of what web advertising should be like.
http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/5/15.html
Equal a cluster.
And a slideshow.
Honestly, you could have whatever you wanted your cluster to be doing running in the backgrgound and have it once in a while change the image showing on the screen. Is it a web server or is it art?
With Second Life having an embedded version of Firefox, could this be used in-game to avoid having to unplug to do other tasks?